Book 7, Ep. 6 | Eugenics
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we do a deep dive into eugenics, a nineteenth-century pseudosciences that justified a lot of racist, ableist, and generally violent oppressive behaviours. We review our conversations about class, critical race theory, disability, neurodivergence, and trauma from our episodes with K. Alex, Jess Battis, Tea Garbeza, Lucia Lorenzi, and Addie Merians, before taking a close look at Cecily Devereux's Growing a Race: Nellie McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism. Tune in OR skip this one if that would be better for you! Take care of yourself first! We'll be back in two weeks with another episode about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey witches, today's episode is about eugenics, and in it we talk about real examples of Canada's |
| 0:07.3 | genocidal treatment of indigenous peoples. |
| 0:10.1 | If this conversation could be triggering for you, feel free to skip it. |
| 0:14.2 | Take care of yourselves. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Hannah McGregor, and I'm Marcel Cosmon. |
| 0:35.8 | You know Hannah, I was thinking that the best way to get ourselves into the right headspace |
| 0:43.3 | for today's episode might be to talk about our favorite breeds of dog. |
| 0:49.8 | So why don't you tell me everything you look for in a good boy in the sorting chat? |
| 0:55.7 | Marcel opening an episode on eugenics with a conversation about dog breeds is so dark. |
| 1:01.1 | I mean it's going to come up again. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, and it's apt. |
| 1:05.2 | Okay, so my hottest of hot takes is that I think that breeding dogs is really gross. |
| 1:11.5 | I think the breeding animals is really gross. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm shocked by this. |
| 1:15.8 | You're a vegan. |
| 1:16.8 | I know it's so at odds with all of my normal politics. |
| 1:21.8 | I really don't like when people buy a designer dogs. |
| 1:26.6 | Though usually I think that the punishment ends up just being the fact that you then have a pretty bad dog. |
| 1:35.2 | Everybody, everybody getting one of these current trendy poodle and something else crosses, |
| 1:43.3 | which are like, you know, they're big trend dogs. |
| 1:45.4 | This exact thing is going to come up in like 45 minutes. |
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